This is the AHRMM Subject Matter Expert Podcast hosted by Justin Poulin. Tune in every month as we speak with Industry Experts to highlight success stories and solutions from the field that advance the healthcare supply chain. And now, Justin Poulin with this month’s Expert…

Alyssa Kangas, MBA, CMRP | Senior Director, Contracting & Procurement at CentraCare

Topic: Clinical Integration & Achieving Greater Contract Adherence

- Clinical Integration – Engaging Providers for Success

- No margin = no mission

* Rural HCOs may feel a greater responsibility to generate a margin to ensure that they can deliver more advanced care options locally

*Expansion of services can only happen if the funding is there

- Evidence Based Decisions take into account:

*Patient Experience

*Patient Outcomes

*Fiscal Viability

- These areas of focus do not need to be mutually exclusive – evidence takes us there

- Success Story

* Overview of how you got started

*Building business acumen for providers

*Gaining engagement

* A couple keys to the success of initiative

* Establish the “Why” and educate/build the necessary skills

* Diad leadership structure

* Physician leader

* Operational leader

* Engage both leaders in VA steering committees

Power of Partnerships: Part 3

Jeremy Strong, System Vice President, Supply Chain & Hospital Operations at Rush University System for Health joins Justin, Mike and Vicky to discuss Rush Health’s innovative JumpHire program, the concept, success and subsequent second cohort that just started and their continued focus on community engagement and investment in local businesses and alignment with those business to meet Rush Health’s operational priorities.

Power of Partnerships: Part 2

Eric Tritch, Vice President Supply Chain & Support Services at the University of Chicago Medicine joins Justin, Mike and Vicky to discuss how UChicago Medicine has engaged with their local community in the areas of construction, business development and purchase services, and how they are modeling community engagement as the begin the development of their facility in NW Indiana.

Power of Partnerships: Part 1

Justin, Mike and Vicky applaud supply chain professionals and discuss this year’s theme of The Power of Partnerships and what those partnerships look like now and how they may look in the near future.

This is the AHRMM Subject Matter Expert Podcast hosted by Justin Poulin. Tune in every month as we speak with Industry Experts to highlight success stories and solutions from the field that advance the healthcare supply chain. And now, Justin Poulin with this month’s Expert…

Alan K. Edwards, CMRP Vice President, Supply Chain Solutions Group at Mary Washington Healthcare

Topic: Recruiting SC Talent From Outside Healthcare

Outline:

- Overview of the staffing crisis

*Layoffs and hiring shortages – how does this coexist?

*Competitive landscape (IT positions, pay scale and impact on retention)

*Baseline skill set needs to be higher level than before

- Turnover planning – the reality is that there will be turnover

- Where do we find talent?

- If outside healthcare, how long does it take to learn the nuances in healthcare?

- What are some best practices for identifying and hiring SC experience without healthcare experience?

This is the AHRMM Subject Matter Expert Podcast hosted by Justin Poulin. Tune in every month as we speak with Industry Experts to highlight success stories and solutions from the field that advance the healthcare supply chain. And now, Justin Poulin with this month’s Expert…

Rueben Mathew, one of our YPAC members and the Product Lead at Clarium Health.

Topic: Technology Enabling Supply Resiliency

- Define a key concept to set the table for the discussion – what is “Dark Data”?

- In what ways can technology address dark data challenges

*Visibility to the supply chain

*Humans cannot monitor and track large data sets

*Implications for standardization

*Enables HCO to respond to SC disruption

*Adjust strategy related to actionable insights

*Technology can track and create actionable insights that humans cannot

- Give us a real world example of an actionable insight that can be gained only through technology

- How can listeners put this into practice?

This is the AHRMM Updates Podcast with Mike Schiller and hosted by Justin Poulin. Tune in every month as we highlight trends, strategies and solutions from the field to advance the healthcare supply chain.

September ‘23 Update:

- Healthcare Supply Chain Week Oct 1-7th - The Power of Partnerships

- SCRC Updates - Abbott Adult Nutrition

- On The Fringe - Panama Canal (Restrictions related to Drought)

This is the AHRMM Subject Matter Expert Podcast hosted by Justin Poulin. Tune in every month as we speak with Industry Experts to highlight success stories and solutions from the field that advance the healthcare supply chain. And now, Justin Poulin with this month’s Expert…

Corey Schmidt, an AHRMM YPAC member and the Assistant Director SHS Operations & Supply Chain Integration at The University of Kansas Health System

Topic: The challenges of rural health through a supply chain lens

Highlights include:

Concerning Trends

- Falling behind in regards to the advances that are being made at a fast pace

- Lagging in technology adoption and fit (does not always work in rural settings)

Economic pressure for rural health

- This is becoming a big concern for rural communities.

- Becker’s Healthcare recently reported that 23% of KS and 4% of MO hospitals are at risk of immediate closure.

What happens to the community when these hospitals close?

- Rural communities have to travel farther for care

- Population health decreases

How can supply chain be a voice for these small hospitals

- Governor asked UKHS what we are doing to create sustainable healthcare

- Strategic Healthcare Solutions (SHS) – Network of Hospitals (can’t buy them all)

-Extend contract pricing to help create parity for the rural community hospitals

-Telehealth

-Networking collaboration among members

-Create new solutions to solve challenges

August 2023 Hospital ISM® Report On Business® Call by AHRMM

In this interview with Justin Poulin,Dawn Watkins Director, Strategic Sourcing at UF Health Shands discusses The Anatomy of a Credit Hold: Why is this more important now than ever; Strategies for Partnering with Suppliers; Strategies for Partnering with Finance Internally; and how there are many challenges to obtaining the right supplies at the right time – don’t let a credit hold be one of them!